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From wire reports • Thursday March 13, 2014 5:26 AM

Former Manson Family member Bruce Davis, who was sentenced to life in prison for two 1969
murders carried out with other members of the cult, was granted parole yesterday by a California
parole board, although it remains uncertain whether he will be freed.

Davis’ parole still must be affirmed by Gov. Jerry Brown, who reversed a similar decision by
the same board last year, saying that the 71-year-old convicted killer remained a danger to the
public.

Davis has been serving a life sentence since his 1972 conviction for the murders of music
teacher Gary Hinman, who was stabbed to death in July 1969, and stuntman Donald “Shorty” Shea, who
was killed the following month.

Manson became one of the 20th century’s most infamous criminals in the summer of 1969, when
he directed his young, mostly female followers to murder seven people in what prosecutors said was
part of a plan to incite a race war.